However, even in this perfect scenario, all is not perfect. Here, he is the proud father of two young striving boys and the loving husband of a caring wife. One notable example is how Willy has ‘flashbacks’ of a better life years ago. Willy is a tired man, he knows deep down that his better days have passed but instead of looking towards the future, he still looks back and regrets. So which ‘view’ of Willy is correct? Unfortunately the answer is both of them. Something which wasn’t achievable in life, even though he loves his sons especially Biff, he continues to ‘spite’ him despite all the help and encouragement given to him by Willy. He is most likely suffering some mental sickness and has just been fired from a job which he has worked his whole life for, a job which he treasures and loves.Īs he can’t even pay his own insurance, he honorably forfeits his life in order to gives his son a twenty thousand dollar ‘boost’ in life. He has passed his opportunity for success due to his respect for his dear wife. However, the other ‘nobler’ view of Willy is that he is a battered and tired man as a ‘small man can be just as exhausted as a great man’. Willy is an insecure man who has cheated his loving wife, lied to his sons, and has taught them that cheating and stealing is a way of life.īut most of all, he has unachievable dreams which he will do anything to accomplish, including that of foolishly committing suicide in order to show his sons that he is a man. The first impression is that he is an angry man who blames the world for his faults, he has tried to mould his children into images of himself and often contradicts himself (as shown in Act 1 where he talks about Biff being a ‘lazy bum’ and then saying ‘there’s one thing about Biff-he’s not lazy’). In Death of a Salesman, Willy is presented as being a man who had a chance at success, but misses it and then tries to grasp at something which he can’t reach.Īt first, he is presented as two different people. Finally, to make an accurate assessment of Willy’s dreams, we have to grasp and conceive the idea of Willy’s dream, the American dream. Secondly, we must evaluate Willy’s eldest son, Biff, we must perceive his knowledge of his ‘father’ and why he warns his father thus. There are three crucial aspects in which we must examine.įirstly, we must examine the battered and seemingly wretched character of Willy Loman, to understand how he came to these dreams. From a reader’s view, Willy was a very foolish man who turned his back onto reality and lived out his hollow dream but yet to access Biff’s claim of Willy’s dreams being ‘all, all wrong’. Above all, Willy Loman was a dreamer, a salesman who saw it necessary to ‘enter the jungle’ to ‘get the diamonds out’. Willy Loman was a man of ‘greatness’, a man who was ‘way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine’ and but was a man who ‘didn’t know who he was’.
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